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Exchange 2010 Journaling - Journal DB Sizing

I am tasked to establish journaling on a small Exchange 2010 on prem environment. I am running Exchange STD so I will be doing the entire DB. I have one single DB that is 42GB. I do not know the message volume for the 75 user mailboxes.
My intent is to create and re-point the journaling to a new Journal Mailbox based on Calendar year if possible. Log file generation for the day is about 500MB if that helps with daily volume calculation.

Is there a Best Practice for sizing needs so I can create a new LUN for the Journaling DB?

cwstad2

Hi simply create a journaling mailbox, and you can if you like creat a journaling database. As im sure yoy know the journaling mailbox will keep all emails regardless of whether the emails are kept or deleted. I reset my journals quarterly to keep the size of the mailbox down and also provides a better time frame of recovery when searching for the mails. Is the server physical or virtual

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you know the database will continue to grow so best to have another drive for the new LUN and the mailbox for Journaling.

I also wrote a script to export the journaling inbox to a pst file

I run this weekly

You do not want your inbox to get too large.

The PST files are more manageable to open at a later time.

If you need help with a script let me know

HTH

winandtell

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Hi Thomas,

Yes, it is a separate new LUN. I would appreciate any scripting to automate exporting to a pst to allow for offloading and easier searches.
I also thought of creating new Journal Mailboxes periodically to segregate dates as well.

Regards

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winandtell

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Great details and extra kudos on the automation